Since meeting with Jean-Claude Juncker last week , Donald Trump seems inclined to de-escalate, at least rhetorically, trade tensions with the European Union. It is not the same with China. In the middle of a commercial standoff with Beijing and as talks between the two countries are stalled, the US president is now considering a 25% tax on 200 billion dollars (more than 172 billion euros) of imported Chinese goods. , instead of the 10% mentioned so far.

Michael Carlos Best, assistant professor of Economics at Columbia University, was awarded the President’s Global Innovation Fund for the Jordanian Economic Policy Research Initiative, a project that will study economic policy in Jordan with a focus on taxation and public spending.